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		johnwheeler on April 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We lost 54k GitHub stars rm -rf / gives no such warnings, and maybe it should, or maybe people should be _very_ careful when typing rm -rf in front of anything.

mjyut on April 15, 2022 | [–]

> GNU rm normally declines to operate on any directory that resolves to /. https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Trea...

alecbz on April 15, 2022 | [–]

It’s both, but mostly the first one. rm’s default behavior is terrible design. Just because UNIX does something doesn’t make it good.

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